THE COHI BLOG

Join us Friday at 10 a.m. to learn more about the In Her Shoes Challenge happening November 6 through November 19. We'll give you an overview of the challenge, help you get set up on the platform and share ideas for promoting your challenge.

There were two people who spoke to me about sex when I was an adolescent. The first was my mother, who one day asked, “Do you have any questions about fallopian tubes or that kind of thing?” I, of course, had a million questions about anatomy, puberty, and reproduction (though very few about actual fallopian tubes) but instead said, “Nope, I’m good.”

Palm trees, sugarcane fields, Mexican restaurants, Colonias and nearly 315-mile of bordering territory with Mexico. The Rio Grande Valley is a region in South Texas with a distinctive blend of cultures, and this comes from someone born and raised at the far western tip of Texas, in the city of El Paso.

My husband and I were weeks away from wrapping up three years of work at an international boarding school in the foothills of the Himalayas in India when one of the pregnancy tests I bought for 10 rupees in the bazaar came back positive.

Claire Cain Miller recently wrote the New York Times article "How to Raise a Feminist Son". She asked neuroscientists, economists, psychologists and others, given their research, to answer the question "How can you raise feminist sons?"

In 2014 Salome Karwah was Time’s person of the year for nursing Ebola victims after surviving the disease herself. On February 21, 2017, Salome died of childbirth complications, but also of Ebola complications. Well, sort of.

COHI's COO, Leah Little, shares her personal thoughts on our work with refugees in the Rio Grande Valley, providing quiet and solemn insight to the tough reality refugees and healthcare providers endure, and the pivotal, compassionate moment when they first meet.

We're proud to introduce COHI's current Activist in Residence! Meet ShiShi Rose- writer, activist, and public speaker. Shishi is currently womanning our social media outreach and leveraging her talent and expertise to help spread COHI's mission. Read her in-depth interview below, and prepare to feel inspired.

We all have felt, and are feeling these emotions as we listen to and absorb the news coming from Syria since March of 2011. We should be honest with ourselves how hard it has been to witness the Syrian crisis, carrying the weight of the events affecting the Syrian diaspora and those remaining inside Syria. It’s hard because individually, we feel we cannot affect any amount of positive change.

In the United States, October marks National Domestic Abuse Awareness month. Domestic violence takes multiple forms in many societies, including physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abuse, destruction of property, social isolation and economic dependency. Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence regardless of age, gender, race, social status or sexual orientation.